Now, while most people have very justifiably been focused on international news over the last

two months, a lot has been happening domestically on the legal front. Case in point, the U.S.

Supreme Court has just issued a new landmark ruling. Specifically, in an eight to one decision,

the Supreme Court found that Colorado's ban on quote-unquote conversion therapy was unconstitutional,

and the ban violated the First Amendment rights of Christian therapists. Let's go through the

details of this particular case together because not only does Colorado have this law in the books,

well, had this law in the books, but also half the country does as well, including the District of Columbia. So let's discuss

what it means for both Colorado as well as for everyone else in the whole country. And of course,

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Thank you so much for that. Now, in terms of the back story, in 2019, the governor of Colorado

signed into law a new bill, which was officially titled the Prohibit Conversion Therapy for

a Minor Act. What this new state-level law did was that it prohibited licensed psychiatrists,

as well as all other licensed mental health professionals from engaging in quote unquote conversion

therapy with patients who are under the age of 18. If they did so, if they engaged in conversion

therapy, these professionals could be disciplined by their relevant licensing boards. They can

have either their licenses taken away as well as being forced to pay fines of upwards of $5,000

per offense.

Now, within this context, within the context of this particular law, the definition of

conversion therapy was written as follows. Quote, conversion therapy means efforts to change

an individual sexual orientation, including efforts to change behaviors or gender expressions,

or to eliminate or reduce sexual

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